Senior Java Software Engineer

Red Thread Innovations is a digital innovation firm with the solitary mission of building meaningful digital products that delight consumers and transform businesses. As a company, we’re an experienced bunch of researchers, designers, and engineers who are passionate about innovation and technology.

We are seeking a Senior Java Software Engineer to join our Scrum-based agile software engineering team. The Engineer will be primarily responsible for leading a team, creating and maintaining a variety of applications.

Joining our Red Thread engineering team, you will experience a healthy amount of autonomy and flexibility to design and implement systems and processes that will directly impact the growth of the organization.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead your team’s whiteboarding sessions to design solutions that focus on scalability, performance, usability, and extensibility

• Define and evolve design patterns that improve code readability and maintainability

• Write clean code with accompanying unit and e2e tests for a variety of digital products

• Be part of a dynamic team that is based on Agile principles – self-managing teams, continuous improvement, and iterative development

• Work with a team whose focus is to create best-in-class products and user experiences

• Contribute to the decision of what technology to use for projects with collaboration and guidance from the greater team

• Champion process improvements based on industry best-practices

• Be part of a mentoring relationship with other technologists in the organization

About You:

• You have 5+ years of industry experience

• Expertise with Java frameworks (e.g. Spring )

• You are passionate about learning new technologies, tackling interesting work, and challenging problems

• Committed to continuous learning and always expanding your skillset

• Excited about being part of an organizational transformation where technology is a major driver

• Focused on maximizing the delivery of business value

• Someone who takes pride in and ownership of the things you build

• Working knowledge of software design patterns, such as Reactive Programming, MV*, VIPER, etc.

• Solid understanding of RESTful services

• Experience in Behavior or Test Driven Development (TDD or BDD) and agile methodologies

• Strong oral and written communication skills

Traits We Truly Value:

Passion - We’re passionate about using technology to improve lives and create elegant solutions to solve real problems.

Collaboration - We conceive, design, and build the best products when we work closely with our partners and end-users.

Positivity - We work hard to nurture a sense of optimism, enthusiasm, and wellbeing in our workplace, and among our teams.

Respect - We ensure a safe, transparent, and respectful work environment where ideas flow freely.

Empathy - We approach people and problems with the utmost compassion. We listen more than we talk.

Innovation - Creativity and innovation are our driving forces. They keep us alive and restless to be even better.